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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...height was set for the sons of chiefs who wanted to go to school, which effectively disqualified many of the shorter Hutu. The Tutsi received the best jobs in the bureaucracy, even as the colonists drained the wealth from the country. "That really began to stratify society," says John Lamphear of the University of Texas, an East Africa expert, "creating differences that hadn't been there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why? the Killing Fields of Rwanda | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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